# PeopleGrove Alternative (2026): Alumni Mentoring Compared

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## How to read this file

Everything here is from Mentornity's own website and product; the page and this file are built together from the same source. "What this page says" is the page itself, in its language. "Mentornity in brief" applies to every program. Prices are published per country and are quoted below for this page's market; another country's price is on the pricing page. Anything not covered here can be asked of the team at info@mentornity.com.

## What this page says

A PeopleGrove alternative for alumni and student mentoring, on facts checked November 2026: pricing, free start, matching. Mentornity is free for up to 10 users.

Published 2026-11-11, updated 2026-11-11.

**Look at a PeopleGrove alternative if your alumni or student mentoring program needs a published price or a free start.** PeopleGrove is a higher-education platform for alumni, career and mentorship programs, priced by quote. Mentornity publishes prices per country and is free for up to 10 users.

Mentornity wrote this page, so we are an interested party. Every PeopleGrove fact below comes from peoplegrove.com, checked November 2026. "Not stated" means we did not find it on the pages we checked.

## PeopleGrove alternatives at a glance

6 platforms buyers often compare with PeopleGrove, listed alphabetically. Every fact comes from the vendor's own website, checked November 2026; "not stated" means we did not find it there. This is not a ranking.

| Platform | Who it says it is for | Pricing | Free plan or trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chronus | Enterprises; also government, healthcare, professional associations, higher education | Not published; contact for pricing | Not stated |
| MentorcliQ | Enterprise employee mentoring and ERGs | From $9,900 a year for 100 employees; higher plans on quote | Not stated |
| Mentorloop | Workplaces, associations, communities, universities | Pro from $299 a month; Enterprise on request | "Build your program for free", no credit card |
| **Mentornity** | Companies, universities, accelerators, communities, women's programs | Published per country; $289 a month for 50 active users in the US | Free for up to 10 users, no time limit |
| Qooper | Enterprises; also universities (students and alumni), ERGs, communities | Not published; request pricing | Not stated |
| Together | HR and L&D teams, department leads, community managers | Not published; request pricing | Not stated |

For more detail on each platform, see our [comparison of eight mentoring platforms](https://www.mentornity.com/compare/best-mentoring-software/).

## What is PeopleGrove?

PeopleGrove's homepage headline is "Driving Outcomes Through Meaningful Engagement & Experiential Education" (peoplegrove.com, checked November 2026). It serves higher education, across:

- alumni engagement
- career services
- enrollment
- experiential learning
- mentorship

It says it has merged with CORE. Its mentorship page names "Smart Matchmaking & Mentor Management", informal, formal and managed mentoring, a mobile app, built-in video chat, dial-ins and SMS notifications.

## PeopleGrove vs Mentornity at a glance

| Criterion | PeopleGrove | Mentornity |
|---|---|---|
| Who it says it is for | Higher education: alumni, career, enrollment, experiential learning | Companies, universities, accelerators, communities, women's programs |
| Pricing | Not published; "Request a Demo" | Published per country; $289 a month for 50 active users in the US |
| Free start | Not stated | Free for up to 10 users, every feature on, no time limit |
| Matching | "Intelligent matching technology automates matching" | Rule-based: weighted rules and mandatory filters, 0–100 score per match, side-by-side review |
| Mentoring formats | Informal, formal and managed mentoring | One-to-one, group meetings, office hours, structured sessions |
| Video and messages | Built-in video chat, dial-ins, SMS notifications | Zoom, Google Meet and Teams links; built-in video; email notifications in each person's language |
| Certificates | Not stated | Certificates with a public verification page |

PeopleGrove sources: [peoplegrove.com](https://www.peoplegrove.com/), peoplegrove.com/solutions/foster-mentorship, both checked November 2026.

## How PeopleGrove prices its platform

PeopleGrove shows no price on the pages we checked. Its calls to action are "Request a Demo" and "Speak with an Expert" (checked November 2026).

Mentornity publishes its price for every country on its [pricing page](https://www.mentornity.com/pricing/). It is free for up to 10 users. Above that, the US price is $289 a month for 50 active users, with no setup fees. White labeling and SAML SSO are priced separately.

## Running alumni mentoring in Mentornity

A university team can run a full alumni cohort in Mentornity:

1. **A public application form** for students and alumni, with your own fields.
2. **Matching on those fields,** with a 0–100 score per match that shows every rule as met or not met.
3. **Scheduled meetings** with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or built-in video links.
4. **Reports and certificates** at the end, with a public page to verify each certificate.

See [how Mentornity's matching works](https://www.mentornity.com/mentor-matching-software/).

## Questions to ask every vendor

1. **What will we pay in years one and two** for our expected active students and alumni?
2. **Can we run a real cohort** before signing?
3. **How do alumni sign up,** and can they use their own email?
4. **Which languages are fully available** in the participant interface and emails?
5. **What can we export** at the end of the year?

## Can Mentornity be tailored to your organization?

Yes. Mentornity delivers solutions built for your organization in a very short time: a program flow, a form, a report or an integration. On request, Mentornity connects to any LMS your university uses and to the other systems your program depends on.

## Other alternatives

- [Best mentoring software compared](https://www.mentornity.com/compare/best-mentoring-software/): eight platforms on pricing, free plans and languages.
- [Free mentoring software](https://www.mentornity.com/compare/free-mentoring-software/): what you can run without paying.
- [Chronus alternative](https://www.mentornity.com/compare/chronus-alternative/) and [Qooper alternative](https://www.mentornity.com/compare/qooper-alternative/): two more vendor comparisons.
- [How to choose mentoring software](https://www.mentornity.com/guides/how-to-choose-mentoring-software/): a checklist for the demo and pilot.

## Trying Mentornity alongside PeopleGrove

Mentornity is free for up to 10 users with every feature on and no time limit. [Create a free program](https://www.mentornity.com/try-for-free/), add your application form, and invite your first alumni mentors.

### Questions and answers

**How much does PeopleGrove cost?**
PeopleGrove does not publish prices. Its site leads to "Request a Demo" and "Speak with an Expert" (peoplegrove.com, checked November 2026).

**Is there a free alternative to PeopleGrove for alumni mentoring?**
Mentornity is free for up to 10 users with every feature on and no time limit, so a university team can run a first alumni cohort before any budget talk.

**Can Mentornity run an alumni mentoring program?**
Yes. Mentornity runs student and alumni programs with public application forms, matching on your own fields, scheduled meetings and certificates.

**Is this comparison neutral?**
No. Mentornity publishes this page. Every PeopleGrove fact comes from peoplegrove.com with the page and check date named, so you can verify it.

## Mentornity in brief

Mentornity is software for running mentoring programs: companies (onboarding, career, leadership, reverse mentoring), universities and alumni networks, startup accelerators and incubators, associations and professional communities, and women's leadership programs. One program team sets the program up; mentors and mentees take part from the browser or their phone. It has run programs since 2015.

### What changes for the program team

- **Matching stops being a spreadsheet job.** The team writes rules on the questions mentors and mentees answer (same department, related expertise, more experience, a specific answer paired with a specific answer), each with a weight. Mentornity scores every possible pair from 0 to 100, leaves out pairs that fail a mandatory rule, and shows the reasons behind each score. An AI rule reads free-text goals and adds to the same score. The same data always gives the same result, so every match can be explained to a manager or a participant. The team approves pairs, lets mentees choose from a ranked list, or opens a mentor pool.
- **The first meeting happens quickly.** Mentors publish their open hours once or as a weekly pattern; mentees book them. Busy time in connected Google and Outlook calendars is blocked both ways, and every meeting gets a Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or built-in video link without anyone creating one. Mentornity's own data on 78,000+ pairs: pairs that met in their first week averaged 2.7 meetings in the first year, against 1.8 for pairs whose first meeting came after two months.
- **Quiet pairs are found while they can still be saved.** Program Health flags pairs that stopped meeting, and automatic reminders go to people who never logged in, pairs behind on their sessions and anyone with an open form or missing feedback, in each person's own language. In the same data a pair silent at day 60 has about a 1 in 3 chance of meeting again; by day 90 it is 1 in 10.
- **Every meeting has a plan, if the program wants one.** Predefined sessions carry a topic, a date range, a brief for each role and questions before and after the meeting. Notes reach both sides; private notes stay private. Flexible programs skip sessions and let pairs meet freely.
- **Support does not land in a personal inbox.** Participants read role guides and send requests inside the platform; the team shares one support board and replies go out in the program's name.
- **The report is ready when leadership, a funder or a board asks.** Participation, matches, meetings, session completion and feedback are counted while the program runs, with a Program Health score and its reasons, and export to Excel, CSV or PDF. Participants can receive certificates on completion.
- **Mentors plan every meeting in one go.** Super Meeting Planner reads both sides' calendars and published hours and plans all remaining meetings of a match at the program's rhythm (duration, target frequency, number of meetings), shows the plan before it creates anything, and never deletes a meeting. The program decides whether the values are locked and whether mentees may plan too (https://www.mentornity.com/whats-new/super-meeting-planner/).
- **Mentors send exercises between meetings.** Mentoring Tools is a library of 27 short exercises in six themes (working together, self-knowledge, goals and action, career and network, venture, reflection). The mentee fills the tool in step by step, both discuss the answers, and only the matched pair sees them. Each tool has its sources, a reason why it works, and a presentation for mentors and one for mentees, and a page of its own under https://www.mentornity.com/tools/.
- **Development is measured, not only satisfaction.** With Development & Impact participants set up to three goals and answer short development statements at the start; at the midpoint, the end and a follow-up they mark their progress, mentors rate the same goals, and the team sees goal attainment and the change per development area with the number of people behind every figure, exportable to Excel. 45 suggested statement sets are matched to the organization type, audience and goal (https://www.mentornity.com/whats-new/development-and-impact/).
- **Mentors and mentees learn inside the platform.** The Support window lists the presentations and guides chosen for the person's role and program type (Mentor Guide, Mentee Guide, video meetings guide, and the tool decks), in the platform language; white-label programs show no Mentornity links (https://www.mentornity.com/presentations/).
- **Large programs share the load.** Coordinators each see only their own pairs; the admin still sees every match, meeting and note in one table. Programs, cohorts and administrators are unlimited, and administrators and coordinators never count towards the price.

### Program models

One-to-one, group mentoring (one mentor with a group), grouped-individual programs, mentee self-selection, open mentor pools, peer and reverse mentoring, structured or freestyle. Roles can be renamed (coach, advisor, expert, alumni) so the platform speaks the organization's language. One person can take part in several programs with a single account.

### Launch

Most programs go from signup to invitations within a day: create the program, follow the built-in checklist (profile questions, sessions, application form), import participants from Excel or share an application link, and send invitations. A person from the Mentornity team helps with the first setup, free of charge.

### How a program runs, week by week

This is the routine Mentornity's own guide recommends (https://www.mentornity.com/how-to-manage-a-mentoring-program/); the platform does the counting and the reminders, the team acts only where a pair is flagged.

- **Day one:** the program is set up and invitations go out. Participants sign up, fill in their profile, and are matched by the rules or choose from a ranked list.
- **Week one:** the aim is a first meeting in the first week, booked from the mentor's open hours with the video link already in the invitation. Automatic login reminders go to anyone who has not signed in.
- **Every week, 30 to 60 minutes for the team** (a cohort of about 50 to 200 people): scan Program Health (Mentornity scores the program across 11 dimensions), clear the flagged pairs, let the reminders cover logins, sessions, forms and feedback, note one win for the stakeholder update, and check whether last week's nudged pairs responded.
- **The escalation schedule:** a login reminder at day 7; a nudge to the mentor if nothing is booked by day 14; a personal note to both if there is still no meeting by day 21 to 30; at 45 days of silence ask "continue or rematch?"; by day 60 rematch the mentee. Half of the pairs still unmet at day 14 do go on to meet, so a quiet fortnight calls for a nudge rather than a rematch.
- **Mentors and mentees, each week:** they book and hold their meetings, answer the before and after questions of the session if the program uses sessions, and share notes. Mentors keep their time protected with weekly limits and cancellation rules.
- **Monthly:** a short update to sponsors from the live report (active pairs, sessions held, the share of pairs that met this month, one participant quote).
- **Mid-program:** one short survey, then act on it within a week (rematches, the most common complaint).
- **The last four weeks:** announce the end date, ask every pair to book a final session, run the final survey, issue certificates, mark the cohort complete and export the report. Invite the strongest mentees to mentor the next cohort.

### For IT, HR and legal

- SAML 2.0 single sign-on with Entra ID (Azure AD), OneLogin or any SAML provider, optionally enforced; white labeling with the organization's own domain, logo, colours and sender address. Both are add-ons priced separately.
- Personal data is processed in line with GDPR and applicable local data protection laws. Participants can access, correct, export and erase their data; the organization can ask for a full export of its program data at any time. Visibility of contact details and notes is set per role.
- Traffic is encrypted with TLS, passwords are stored hashed and access to production data is restricted. Security questionnaires, a data processing agreement and data-location questions are handled with the quote.
- Works with Zoom, Google Meet and Calendar, Microsoft Teams and Outlook, built-in Jitsi video, and Excel/CSV import and export. Mentornity connects to other systems such as an LMS on request, and adapts the platform to an organization's own process.

### Languages

Participants use the platform, and receive its emails, in their own language: English, Turkish, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese or Dutch.

## Pricing (United States, USD)

- Free for up to 10 users with every feature and no time limit. No credit card.
- $289 per month for 50 active users, or $260 per month paid yearly (10% off, $3,120 a year). Excludes any local taxes.
- Above 50 users the price follows the number of active participants; the team marks who is active. Administrators and coordinators are free.
- No setup or implementation fee. White labeling and SAML single sign-on are priced separately.
- Prices are published per country, not quoted on a call: https://www.mentornity.com/pricing/

## Organizations that run programs on Mentornity

Toyota, TIM, RATP Dev USA, Pirelli, Universität Basel, UNDP, Devoteam, BCD Travel, Startup Virginia, Tenity, Community College of Philadelphia, Brave Generation, Alexander Graham Bell Foundation. Each one ran its own program on the platform, checked against production data. Full list: https://www.mentornity.com/customers/

## Next steps

- Start a free program (up to 10 users, no credit card): https://www.mentornity.com/try-for-free/
- Book a walkthrough with the team: https://www.mentornity.com/book-a-demo/
- How matching works: https://www.mentornity.com/mentor-matching-software/
- Pricing: https://www.mentornity.com/pricing/
- Contact: info@mentornity.com